Friday, February 9, 2018

Yuko Okumura who lives in Bloomington, Indiana loves and collects all possible things related to strawberries. In this uplifting short film "Strawberries Will Save The World" directed by Okumura's daughter Yoko Okumura, we get to see a part of her very large collection of strawberry merchandise and collectibles.

Directed by Tony Silver and produced by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, it was awarded the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the 1983 Sundance Film Festival. STYLE WARS is regarded as the indispensable document of New York Street culture of the early '80s, the filmic record of a golden age of youthful creativity that exploded into the world from a city in crisis.

STYLE WARS captured the look and feel of New York's ramshackle subway system as graffiti writers' public playground, battleground and spectacular artistic canvas. Opposing them by every means possible were Mayor Edward Koch, the police, and the New York Transit Authority. Meanwhile MCs, DJs and B-boys rocked the city with new sounds and new moves and street corner breakdance battles evolved into performance art.

If you like vintage ski films, you're in for a treat! Thanks to Echoboom Sports, you can now enjoy several full vintage ski films produced by Warren Miller on Echoboom's YouTube channel, along with additional full ski and snowboard films and more.

You can now listen to the full soundtrack for the film "Blade Runner 2049" by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch on Spotify.

The album sounds very mystic and powerful with that 80's synth vibe, very similar to Vangelis original soundtrack for the first "Blade Runner" film. And that was one of the reasons why director Denis Villeneuve decided to go with Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch instead of Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. From IndieWire:

"The thing I will say is that making movies is a laboratory. It.s an artistic process. You cannot plan things. Jóhann Jóhannsson is one of my favorite composers alive today. He's a very strong artist," Villeneuve told Al Arabiya English. "But the movie needed something different, and I needed to go back to something closer to Vangelis. Jóhan and I decided that I will need to go in another direction — that's what I will say. I hope I have the chance to work with him again because I think he’s really a fantastic composer."

Very often, I find myself having many tabs opened at the same time in Chrome when working with the blog. I sometimes choose to save those URLs in a text document for future reference, a task that can be somewhat time-consuming.

Thanks to the work of developer Vincent Paré, a Chrome extension called Copy All Urls has been created, which lets you copy all opened tabs/URLs into the clipboard. You can then paste those URLs into a text document or to the browser to create new tabs.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Humble Bundle currently offers a great software bundle for filmmakers – now you can get Magix's video editor Vegas Pro 14 Edit for only $20 coupled with other great bonuses. I was about to upgrade my Vegas Movie Studio license but decided to get this instead. I had never heard about this website before until today so this deal came as a big surprise.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

A new update of the video editor Filmora has just been released. Filmora version 8.5 now includes PIP blending modes, which gives you the option to change the effect and opacity of a video layer, along with several requested features.